Banning Kids In Restaurants...

[ByeByeBlackBird]

This would be absolutely MAGICAL. More places need to do this!!!

 

[Godsgrl]

I disagree with the restaurant's decision, and would not patronize one that had those rules. I think it's rude, and unfair to families. To me, they are saying, "we don't like children, and don't want them in our restaurant."

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

As a parent with children under 6 - meh.

I'm voting for banning unruly children AND their idiot parents. There isn't an age basis for ill behavior.

My 3 y/o CAN and will sit politely at a table, order a meal, not shriek, run around or bother other diners, then eat her meal and not throw a fit.

I've seen children who are at very least 10 who do not have the table manners I require from my kids at 18 months, and run all over the place, disturbing others.

We have left a resturant because of children who were just too much, and let the manager know.

 

[Young Heritage]

I had many of those paddlings with my feet getting lifted off the floor. My first one was in 3rd grade. Now I do not use this on my child as he has such a high pain tolerance from the hospital it would have to be abuse to get him to respond to it. Do I think I was abused as a child. NO! And guess what, I still have respect for others and teach my child the same. We could go on and on about this but it all boils down to the parents teaching the kids these behaviors and a society that has no respect for others anymore... Guess that is why I work, stay at home, and do not go to many places due to the ignorant thinking of a lot of people.

 

[bt03]

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My daughter is now 10 and has always known how to behave in public settings. I took her to her first movie when she was 2 weeks old and she never made a peep. I have only ever had to take her out of one movie but never any restaurant. She even went to a steak house where our bill was well over $100 but no one even knew a child (5 at the time) was there because I taught her how to behave. Now I have a niece that is 9 that I would not take to an amusement park because she is so loud and misbehaved. She is loud, obnoxious, runs everywhere and just generally embarrassing to be around. It is not my daughter's fault that her cousin is that way but you would ban my daughter because of her cousin's behavior? I would ban her parents (which I have from parties) because they do not know how to act and cannot show their daughter how to act properly. you don't punish children for the mistakes of their parents, so that would be one restaurant that would be losing my business.

 

[Laurajean]

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Conversely; I was never hit as a child in any form, paddle, hands or otherwise. And I was a VERY well behaved kid, I really was. I was always the good kid at family gatherings while my cousins all were running around terrorizing the place. So from this I conclude that while discipline is key, physical punishment may or may not be a part of that discipline. The only thing that bothers me more than a bratty kid in a restaurant is seeing a parent start grabbing, jerking the arm, yelling at and spanking the kid. That actually really disturbs me, I hate to see it, especially if I'm eating. Discipline your children of course, but I don't need or want to see you jerking them around and berating them in public either. It's no wonder those kids are naughty, how those parents treat them CLEARLY isn't working.

 

[gamebirdsonly]

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[NGT ANGL]

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Conversely; I was never hit as a child in any form, paddle, hands or otherwise. And I was a VERY well behaved kid, I really was. I was always the good kid at family gatherings while my cousins all were running around terrorizing the place. So from this I conclude that while discipline is key, physical punishment may or may not be a part of that discipline. The only thing that bothers me more than a bratty kid in a restaurant is seeing a parent start grabbing, jerking the arm, yelling at and spanking the kid. That actually really disturbs me, I hate to see it, especially if I'm eating. Discipline your children of course, but I don't need or want to see you jerking them around and berating them in public either. It's no wonder those kids are naughty, how those parents treat them CLEARLY isn't working.

x2 - it is bad enough that the child is acting out but when the parent(s) add to the commotion by yelling/correcting/berrating themselves and they are louder and more obnoxious than the child, it disturbs me as well.

 

[BayouPoules]

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yep!

But really,.. it's about time that someone did it,.. no one should have to put up with other people's undisciplined children,..especially when paying!

Maybe this will spread!

 

[ByeByeBlackBird]

The great part is, the restaurants owner can say what he wants in HIS/HER own restaurant! They lay down the rules. and choosing to eat there, YOU are subject to them. if they say you MUST wear fancy dress, it is perfectly within their right to admit NOONE not dressed nicely! Same can be said of allowing children. It is no different.